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The changes are actually fairly minor, but each moves the bike closer to just being an oversized dirtbike—something I felt it was already pretty close to after riding it around South Africa.

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The stock exhaust was ditched for a smaller, lighter Dakar-style Termignoni system that will give the bike a little more grunt and make it sound more like a dirtbike. It also gets a new, larger belly pan, and a beautiful motocross shaped seat. The luggage rack on the back is a now a smaller, but more substantial looking tubular steel unit and, of course, it wouldn’t be complete without real knobby tires.

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Alright Honda, it’s time to bring me the black version and to start releasing sound clips of that exhaust. Because I need it.